Red Planet

Red Planet is a nickname for the planet Mars, due to its surface color. It may also refer to:

  • Red Planet (novel) by Robert A. Heinlein
  • Red Planet (miniseries), a 1994 animated adaptation of the novel
  • Red Planet (film), an unrelated 2000 film starring Val Kilmer
  • Red Planet (game), a BattleTech game scenario
  • Red Planet Mars a 1952 film based on a 1932 play Red Planet

Famous quotes containing the words red and/or planet:

    “Take a red book called TELEPHONE,
    size eight by four. There it sits.
    My red book, name, address and number.
    These are all people that I somehow own.
    Yet some of these names are counterfeit.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “The planet on which we live is poorly organized, many areas are overpopulated, others are reserved for a few, technology’s potential is only in part realized, and most people are starving.”
    —Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)